I disagree on both counts. Maybe there isn't a serious social problem here - how do you know?
>Perhaps its a sad fact that the work of women sells more copies when sold as a memoir and the publisher is make a shrewd decision. Perhaps its possible that the publisher is just can't conceive of women in a contemporary way.
This is pure speculation, masquerading as insight. How do you know that your interpretation of this situation is actually correct?
> This is a journalistic work and it should be presented as such because that is that only way to publish it with integrity.
Ok. I have no opinion on the work in question. However, when you take money, you lose flexibility. It wouldn't be the first time that pressure from the publisher compromised the author's vision.
Men would not.
"Perhaps its possible that the publisher is just can't conceive of women in a contemporary way."
The point is that apparently the female buyers cannot "conceive of women in a contemporary way".
Perhaps its a sad fact that the work of women sells more copies when sold as a memoir and the publisher is make a shrewd decision. Perhaps its possible that the publisher is just can't conceive of women in a contemporary way.
Whatever the case, the situation is FUBAR. This is a journalistic work and it should be presented as such because that is that only way to publish it with integrity. Everyone at that publisher should be ashamed of what they've done.